Vatican City: Monsignor Scarano Corruption Trial Begins
The trial of high-ranking Vatican official Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, accused of attempting to smuggle US$30 million, opened on Tuesday, AFP reports.
The trial of high-ranking Vatican official Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, accused of attempting to smuggle US$30 million, opened on Tuesday, AFP reports.
Swedish telecommunications giant TeliaSonera fired four senior management executives on Friday after an ethics review determined that deals in Asia were conducted improperly, The Financial Times reports.
At least 40 journalists were injured when baton-wielding police charged into a protesting crowd in Kyiv on Monday evening. The Kyiv Post reports that the journalists, who included photojournalists from The New York Times, Reuters, and AFP, were hit with clubs, rocks, tear gas, and noise grenades.
Transparency International has released its Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2013. Out of the 177 countries and territories analyzed, Afghanistan, North Korea, and Somalia are perceived as the most corrupt, and Denmark and New Zealand as the least.
French police broke up an arms trafficking ring and arrested dozens of suspects in multiple raids on Monday, The Guardian reports.
Former UBS banker Raoul Weil has agreed to be extradited to the United States to face charges of tax evasion after more than five weeks in an Italian jail, according to Reuters.
Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) dismantled an alleged football betting syndicate, arresting seven suspects including three current athletes and a former Premier League player, according to the BBC.
Bosnian authorities have sentenced gang kingpin Zijad Turković to 40 years in jail for running a Bosnian gang that committed several murders and engaged in drug trafficking, extortion, and money laundering.
Authorities arrested four ranking Chilean national police officers and two civilians for drug trafficking on Monday, according to InSight Crime.
Officials are on the lookout for additional cases of diploma fraud in the Balkans after the arrest of a Macedonian man who is accused of selling counterfeit university diplomas.